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 Sideboard, subs. (obsolete).—1. A shirt-collar of the 'stand-up' order. Also (2) in pl. = whiskers, SIDE-WINGS, GILLS (q.v.).

Side-pocket, subs. phr. (American).—An out-of-the-way drinking saloon.

Wanted as much as a dog (or a toad) wants a side-pocket, phr. (old).—'A simile used for one who desires anything by no means necessary' (Grose). See also Wife.

Side-sim, subs. phr. (old).—A fool: see Buffle.

1612. Passenger of Benevenuto [Nares]. Reach me that platter there, you side simme. This fellow the higher hee is in stature the more foole he grows.

Side-slip, subs. phr. (common).—bastard; a bye-blow (q.v.)

1872. Eliot, Middlemarch, xl. The old man left it to this side-slip of a son that he kept in the dark.

Side-splitter, subs. phr. (colloquial).—A funny story. Hence, side-splitting = 'screamingly' funny.

1893. Milliken, 'Arry Ballads, 36. Side splitters, spice, and the like.

Sidetrack, verb. (American).—To shunt (q.v.); to avoid; to place on one side; to discontinue.

1889. Det. Free Press, 12 Jan. Then he said to Beverly, who had been side-tracked: 'Now I'll be Tucker for a while, and you can be Tucker's brother.'

1892. Gunter, Miss Dividends, vi. Call me Buck! side-track the 'Mr. Powers'!

Side-winder, subs. phr. (pugilistic).—A heavy blow with the fist: also SIDEWIPE.

1850. Southern Sketches [Bartlett]. Arch would fetch him a side-wipe on the head, and knock him into the middle of next week.

Sidledywry, adj. (old).—Crooked (Grose).

Sidney-bird. See Sydney sider.

Siege, subs. (old colloquial).—1. Excrement; fæcal matter; (2) a jakes; and (3) defecation: as verb. = to stool (B. E., 1696).

1548. Barclay, Eclogues [Cunningham]. For sure the lord's siege and the rural man's Is of like savour.

1603. Jonson, Sejanus, i. 2. I do not ask you of their urines, Whose smell's most violet, or whose siege is best, Or who makes hardest faces on her stool.

1609. Shakspeare, Tempest, ii. 2. How cam'st thou to be in the siege of this mooncalf? Can he vent Trinculos.

1646. Browne, Vulgar Errors. It accompanieth the unconvertible part in the SIEGE.

Sieve, subs. (old).—A loose-spoken person; a blab (q.v.): cf. 'As well pour water into a sieve as tell him' (Ray).

d.1701. Dryden, Mock Astrologer, i. 1. Why then, as you are a waiting-woman, as you are the sieve of all your lady's secrets, tell it me.

Sift, verb. (thieves').—To embezzle small coins: such as might pass through a sieve.

Sifter, subs. (American).—A drink composed of whiskey, honey, strawberry-syrup, lemon, and ice.

Sight, subs. (colloquial).—1. Generic for magnitude (that is, something worth looking at): thus a sight of people = a multitude; a sight of work = untiring industry or 'enough and to spare'; a sight of money = a large amount (Bee). Hence, out of sight = unrivalled, beyond comparison; A smart (pretty, precious, powerful, &c.) sight = a great deal; A sight for sore eyes = something to please: also in sarcasm.